Northridge, CA -- This won't be music to the ears of 50 Cent or G-Unit but one of the original west coast rappers says today's rappers are phonies just trying to sell a lot of records.

MC Eiht, a veteran Compton gangsta rapper, says these rappers, and mainstream rap in general, aren't real anymore because they're rapping about stuff they've never really been through, but it's still popular because "...radio stations and record executives like it and are accepting it."

As he puts it, "We've been force fed a lot of bull. These rappers have never experienced what we went through like police corruption and having our records banned."

It's a big reason why MC Eiht felt like he needed to release his new album, "Veterans Day," which just hit stores.

He hopes it will "let people know how we originated and what we've been doing for awhile."

MC Eiht says he'll never be someone he's not as he says "I want people to say MC Eiht put out 50 records and never strayed."

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